12. A Whiff of Grapeshot

Come with me to the Saint Roch church and have a look at some of the scars left on Paris. These particular ones date all the way back to the Revolution and can blamed a certain young Corsican and, in the words of historian Thomas Carlyle, a whiff of grapeshot.

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Revolutionary calendar (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_Calend…)
Further reading Andrew Roberts - Napoleon the Great.
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